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The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Manchester Health Department (MHD) are announcing additional testing clinics for people who might have been exposed to a person with tuberculosis (TB) who was at the Families in Transition (FIT) Adult Shelter and the 1269 Café in Manchester, NH while infectious.
Despite the efforts of Democrats to offer a “better budget alternative,” the majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives approved a $15.4 billion two-year budget that cuts many services and hikes fees on Thursday.
The House wants to prohibit sanctuary cities or towns in the state to shelter undocumented immigrants, but Democrats argued now is not the time with the Trump administration deporting immigrants without due process or any evidence they committed a crime.
Attorney General John M. Formella announces that James Peretti, the former general manager of The Foundry Restaurant (Foundry), located in Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in Hillsborough Superior Court Northern District today to two felony theft charges stemming from his tenure at the Foundry.
In sometimes emotional testimony, parents of school children spoke Thursday at a Senate Education Committee hearing for and against House Bill 324, which would ban “obscene,” “harmful” and “age-inappropriate” materials from schools and school libraries.
By a slim margin, the House Thursday approved expanding the Education Freedom Account program to every child in the state in the second year of the next biennium.
A bill mandating teachers answer parents’ questions about their child “completely and honestly” came under fire at a public hearing Wednesday.
The visa of foreign-born Dartmouth College grad student Xiaotian Liu is back in place after a federal judge put a temporary halt on the purge being acted out by President Donald Trump’s administration.
A bill to add a teacher’s mental state to the state divisive concepts law is not enough to overturn the federal court’s injunction, a House committee was told Wednesday.